Then Neave asked a woman: Margaret Thatcher. Her vision was of a Tory party that stood for right-wing principles clearly distinct from Labour’s, with the voters allowed to have a choice, not an echo. Unlike the British political consensus at the time, Thatcher was an advocate of privatization, deregulation, lowering taxes, and reigning in government spending. “Consensus doesn’t really give you any direction in life,” she later said.
